Description - On his first day at a new school, blind sixteen-year-old Will Porter accidentally groped a girl on the stairs, sat on another student in the cafeteria, and somehow drove a new classmate to tears. High school can only get better from there, right?
As Will starts to find his footing, he develops a crush on a sweet but shy girl names Cecily. And despite his fear that having a girlfriend will make him inherently dependent on someone sighted, the two of them grow closer and closer. Then an unprecedented opportunity arises: an experimental surgery that could give Will eyesight for the first time in his life. But learning to see is more difficult than Will ever imagined, and he soon realizes that the sighted world has been keeping secrets. It turns out that Cecily doesn't meet traditional definitions of beauty-in fact, everything he'd heard about her appearance was a lie by their so-called friends to get the two of them together. Does it matter what Cecily looks like? No, not really. But then why does Will feel so betrayed?
My Review- Reading this book gave me so many emotions. For one Will is blind and he is going to a new school. He doesn't like getting pitied by anyone. He wants to be independent. He meets Cecily for the first time, and she runs out crying and he doesn't know why. They then start hanging out and Will starts to fall for her. When Will finally gets his surgery he sees that she has a birthmark on her forehead. They get into an argument and she leaves for California. This book made me realize that being able to see is a privilege. It made me want realize that people may look differently on the outside but are really special on the inside. If you want a good love story, this book is one for you. I recommend 10/10
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